Online Dating Tips
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HELPFUL HINTS
Secondary email address
Get a separate email address for online dating. It will be far easier to keep track of your online dating messages if you separate them from your normal emails. Try to name it something similar to the name of your online dating profile. If someone turns crazy on you, this also allows you to abandon the address without sacrificing your main email.
Local, local, local
It can be a giant time waster to communicate with someone that's hundreds of miles away. Meeting them is too difficult and expensive. You don't want to have to uproot your entire life for a relationship that may or may not work out. Keep dating as simple as possible. Keep it local.
Best time to be online
Sunday gets the most responses. Most singles have gone out Friday and Saturday only for it to be a complete washout. Odds are they were approached by singles with no social skills whatsoever or weren't approached at all. Be the person that restores their faith in the opposite sex. Log on between 10 am-noon and 1-5 pm and watch the responses roll in.
On workdays, most women will surf cyberspace between 5-7 pm as they return home from work and take a short break before preparing dinner. Try to get online during these hours to improve your number of responses and improve your chances of interacting in 'real time.' It's important to stay away from the online dating sites during work hours or you'll look like a slacker. Remember, timing is everything - even when dating online.
Playing the percentages
Create realistic response rate expectations. The best hitters in baseball don't get a hit every time they step to the plate and neither will you. A 10% response rate is good, a 20% response rate is great, and a 30% response rate is spectacular. Therefore, it is important you send out 20 messages to singles you are interested in - not just one or two.
Don't worry about who didn't respond to your message. Your concern should be turning the responses you do get back into dates. Concentrate on capturing the imagination of the attractive teacher who just messaged back, not the naughty nurse who hasn't responded to any of your messages.
Online safety
Keep yourself as safe as possible. When chatting online never give out any financial data, your address or any number but your cell phone (if possible). When meeting offline for the first time, always meet in a public space and find your own transportation there. Odds are, nothing bad will happen, but it's always better to be safe than sorry.
Prepare for success
If you have struggled in the past or are new to online dating - don't worry. If you follow this guide's suggestions you're on the path to becoming one of the hottest singles in online dating. But you better be prepared for it. You'll have to put aside some time every day to answer messages and search for potential dates. You'll also have to set some time aside to meet these singles in person.
Don't let online replace reality
Online dating should only be one part of the dating puzzle. It can be an amazingly useful tool, but it's also easy to get lost online, absorbed in the safety cyberspace. Some people get addicted to being anonymous, voyeuristic and allow the internet to replace reality.
If you find that you're spending too much time online or becoming too emotionally invested in the online dating world, unplug your computer and do something fun with your friends. Toss the Frisbee around in the park, walk through a museum, sign up for surfing lessons, take a dance class - anything to get you out of the house and around other people.
Remember it's supposed to be fun
Never take online dating too seriously. Don't take it personally when someone doesn't message back. Be gratefully they're not wasting your time, allowing you to spend more time interacting with women who are interested in you.
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